@article{ref1,
title="Aspects of traumatology in ice hockey",
journal="Journal of sports sciences",
year="1987",
author="Pförringer, W. and Smasal, V.",
volume="5",
number="3",
pages="327-336",
abstract="Ice hockey is the fastest team game played and is also considered to be one of the roughest of all sports, with a high injury incidence. Injuries and their causes were recorded by the questioning of players in the first league of the Federal Republic of Germany. Eighty-eight out of a total of 207 first league players were included in this study. Head injuries were found to occur most frequently: however, lesions of the shoulders and of the upper and lower extremities had a more detrimental effect. The links between causes and mechanisms of the different kinds of injuries make it clear that a marked tightening of the rules and an improvement in protective clothing would serve to reduce the incidence of injuries in ice hockey.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0264-0414",
doi="10.1080/02640418708729786",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02640418708729786"
}